Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous On-Vehicle Platform

Plus; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Catered lunch

Unlimited snacks and beverages

401(k) plan

Job summary

PlusAI is seeking engineers to strengthen its redundant on-vehicle platform and autonomous software stack for factory-built autonomous trucks. You will collaborate with autonomy and runtime teams to improve robustness and performance on the on-vehicle platform.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years of experience, a strong CS background, and hands-on C++/Python, Linux, and IPC expertise. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits with opportunities to influence a growing automotive autonomy

Qualifications

• Minimum 2+ years of professional experience.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related field.
• Strong programming skills in C++ and Python.
• Basic understanding of computer vision and deep learning models.
• Hands-on experience of high performance IPC / middleware stack.
• Familiarity with CUDA, OpenCL, OpenVX, Halide or other SIMD programming models.
• Ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technology.
• Ability to work on large code bases and a fast growing environment.
• Strong communication skills.
• Familiar with Linux system and basic kernel tuning, network tuning, device tree tuning, timesync, etc.
• Comfortable with On-vehicle troubleshooting and performance profiling.

Responsibilities

• Work closely with our autonomy and runtime teams to improve our redundant on-vehicle platform and autonomous software stack.
• Develop perspectives on opportunities and gaps in our redundant software and hardware strategy with a longer-term horizon.
• Integrate and optimize performance and robustness of different autonomous software components into the redundant on-vehicle platform.
• Design and develop fault detection and fault handling strategies for the redundant on-vehicle platform.
• Design and develop validation strategies for the redundant on-vehicle platform, including on-vehicle testing and SIL and HiL simulation testing.
• Evaluate, integrate and optimize partner middleware into our AD stack and keep driverless operation features aligned.
• Ensure work complies with the Quality Management System (QMS) and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Drive process improvements and ensure team compliance with QMS.

Skills

C++

Python

Computer Vision

Deep Learning

Performance Profiling

IPC / Middleware

Linux

Kernel Tuning

Education

MS or PhD in Computer Science

Tools

CUDA

OpenCL

OpenVX

Halide

NVIDIA SoCs

QNX

Job description

PlusAI is seeking engineers to strengthen its redundant on-vehicle platform and autonomous software stack for factory-built autonomous trucks. You will collaborate with autonomy and runtime teams to improve robustness and performance on the on-vehicle platform.

Ideal candidates have 2+ years of experience, a strong CS background, and hands-on C++/Python, Linux, and IPC expertise. The role offers a competitive salary and benefits with opportunities to influence a growing automotive autonomy